RT @SarahDuggers: @patrick_kidd I used to have a boyfriend who lived there and it’s all fun and games until you have to phone in to a new j….

RT @NewsUKArchives: @patrick_kidd from The Times archive a pic: Duchess of York, with the Duke of York at the Civil service Regatta at Eel….

Eel Pie Island, in the Thames by Twickenham, was once home to a blues club that hosted the Rolling Stones 24 times. Now it's a peaceful retreat for artists where the public are banned save for a couple of weekends a year. I visited on Sunday and wrote this.

RT @rugbyjaffa: 63rd when you add the extras.

RT @angus_donald: The true story of the Englishman who fought for Genghis Khan: coming soon!

The rain badly underperformed at Edgbaston. It started well and was building a decent-looking innings but just when you thought it might go on to produce something of substance that might save the match it was gone. Typical Bazball weather. Lasted longer than the top six, though.

An excellent side sport has broken out at Henley Regatta, where men often outpeacock women: trousers snooker. Is there also a blazer/tie version? Remenham would run up quite a large break just with one pair of socks.

God Only Knows, by The Beach Boys, isn't about what you think it's about. My old pal Tom Greeves, as ever, provides the musical analysis that so-called experts can't discern, all while eating a cheese sandwich elegantly.

I actually made THREE catches in my school career. Though one was for another school after our cricket master kindly loaned me to them. The captain, an Essex colt, hit the ball straight to me, assuming that was the safest place to play the ball and somehow it stuck.

Last Friday I became president of @OldColcestrians, yesterday @crgscc won their first match at the Royal Grammar Schools Cricket Festival since 2017. A coincidence? Well, obviously. But I’m delighted for them. Must have been inspired by hearing me talk about making a catch once….

It was British discipline and drumstick moustaches vs American razzmatazz and pom-poms as seven marching bands of different styles paraded and competed at Hampton Court to close London Band Week. My latest Sketches of London dispatch for ⁦@thetimes⁩.

I thought it was called a blob not a dot.

Viewed from afar, the Matterhorn looks compact but up close it's "like a croissant; on the surface everything is falling apart". A fascinating and concerning piece by @GWhittell on how the Alps are melting.

RT @pjmeade: @patrick_kidd @ObserverUK I was saddened to hear that Fingers has gone to the great pavilion in the sky. I first met him when….

The Lord’s Test will not look the same again. Wrote this @ObserverUK obituary on John “Fingers” Fingleton, a celebrated charity auctioneer with loud opinions and louder blazers but whose heart was in the right place. A legend in his own lunchtime.

RT @patrick_kidd: It takes 20 gardeners, 31 ground staff, 40 physios, 280 ball boys and girls, 300 chefs, 12,000 petunias, 300,000 glasses….

It takes 20 gardeners, 31 ground staff, 40 physios, 280 ball boys and girls, 300 chefs, 12,000 petunias, 300,000 glasses of Pimm's and 2.5 million strawberries to put on Wimbledon for 42,000 spectators a day. My behind the scenes piece with @MarcAspland .

RT @patrick_kidd: My weekend athletic endeavour is now online. I took part in the @BromptonBicycle World Championships, a gloriously batty….

Like the London Marathon, the Brompton World Championships has people doing it for fun and serious athletes. This year's winner was a professional cyclist and it has been won by someone who won the Vuelta a Espana. But also plenty just doing it "because it's there".

My weekend athletic endeavour is now online. I took part in the @BromptonBicycle World Championships, a gloriously batty contest in which you begin by unfolding your bicycle (which is one reason why I got lapped twice) and Lycra is strictly banned.